An in vivo and in vitro model of Plasmodium falciparum rosetting and autoagglutination mediated by varO, a group A var gene encoding a frequent serotype

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5565-5580

  Vigan Womas, Inès ^a   Guillotte, Micheline ^a   Le Scanf, Cécile ^b   Igonet, Sébastien ^a   Petres, Stéphane ^c   Juillerat, Alexandre ^a   Badaut, Cyril ^a   Nato, Farida ^c   Schneider, Achim ^a   Lavergne, Anne ^b   Contamin, Hugues ^b   Tall, Adama ^d   Baril, Laurence ^d   Bentley, Graham A ^a   Mercereau Puijalon, Odile ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIBODY; DUFFY BINDING LIKE 1ALPHA; DUFFY BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN VAR; PROTEIN VARO; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEBIDAE; CELL CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; ROSETTE FORMATION; RURAL POPULATION; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS; SENEGAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; SAIMIRI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING;

EID: 57349087682     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00901-08     Document Type: Article

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